Design with Dialogue held a series of dialogues and design sessions to construct a shared ethical vision and narrative characterizing the emerging commitments and proposals envisioning a new Canadian foreign policy. Across the perspectives of a wide variety of citizens and residents, ages and sectors, ethnicities and spiritual traditions, a growing group of DwD members […]
Tag: Social Change
Envisioning the Future of Toronto’s Public Lands
Can we ecologize Toronto’s green lands and watersheds? Can we enhance access and inclusion of cultural uses of our parks, common places and spaces? How might we recover, restore, reimagine or rewild Toronto’s public lands? Toronto’s urban planning team has been comprehensively revising its downtown planning – the DwD engagement held a session to cocreate citizen proposals […]
Designing Places & Spaces for New Learning
How might Youth Spaces in the education system support student goals and aspirations? What can we do better having learned from observing decades of Toronto’s alternative schools? How might we redesign an educational system that better serves all students and families in the city? A recent student project in Strategic Foresight & Innovation proposed a […]
Playing to Change the World: The Oasis Game
How can we play to change the world? How can we, in the process, help a collective socio-cultural, environmental and economic dream materialize? Returning from Warriors Without Weapons – a 32-days intensive leadership training program in Brasil, Dona Geagea shared the philosophy and magic behind The Oasis Game. The Oasis is a game and, today, a […]
SOAR Workshop: Thriving First Nations
Our Futures Depend on Thriving First Nations How might Canadians help create durable social change for first nations in the coming decade for education, employment, housing, justice and health equity, and spiritual connections to land? The August 2013 DwD session was held by the “social start-up” Generation Connection to collect ideas toward an educational initiative […]